US Patent Issued to Zumtobel Lighting on Oct. 7 for "Use of lines in a lighting strip system for data communication" (Austrian, Finnish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,316, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Zumtobel Lighting GmbH (Dornbirn, Austria).

"Use of lines in a lighting strip system for data communication" was invented by Stefan Lorenz (Schwarzenbruck, Germany), Gerald Ladstatter (Klaus, Austria) and Michail Angelov (Finnland, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a lighting strip system (1) comprising a support rail system (10) and luminaires (200) and further components (300) connected thereto, wherein electrical lines (120) are arranged inside the support rail (100), and wherein the electrical lines (120) comprise both a main power supply line (130) and other lin...